Quotes About Wisdom

Pecans have learned that there is strength in unity

What knowledge the people have forgotten is remembered by the land.

I like to imagine that when Skywoman scattered her handful of seeds across Turtle Island, she was sowing sustenance for the body and also for the mind, emotion, and spirit: she was leaving us teachers. The plants can tell us her story; we need to learn to listen.

The Wisdom of the Elders

humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn - we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance

suppose that's the way we humans are, thinking too much and listening too little. Paying attention acknowledges that we have something to learn from intelligences other than our own.

humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn—we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way that they live. They teach us by example. They've been on the earth far longer than we have been, and have had time to figure things out.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

The plants can tell us her story; we need to learn to listen.

After the gods experimented with arrogance, they gave the people of corn humility, and it takes humility to learn from other species.

for we are storymakers, not just storytellers

Yes, I have learned the names of all the bushes, but I have yet to learn their songs.

In a colonist society the ceremonies that endure are not about land; they're about family and culture, values that are transportable from the old country. Ceremonies for the land no doubt existed there, but it seems they did not survive emigration in any substantial way. I think there is wisdom in regenerating them here, as a means to form bonds with this land.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

We gather our minds to greet and thank the enlightened Teachers who have come to help throughout the ages. When we forget how to live in harmony, they remind us of the way we were instructed to live as people. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to these caring Teachers. Now our minds are one.

We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn - we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way that they live. They teach us by example. They've been on the earth far longer than we have been, and have had time to figure things out. They live both above and below ground, joining Skyworld to the earth. Plants know how to make food and medicine from light and water, and then give it away.

leadership is rooted not in power and authority, but in service and wisdom.

God gave us all a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time.

I was not the equal of my cousins in athletic ability or good looks, but I'd like to think God evened the score by granting me a modicum of common sense, which sometimes seems to be sadly missing in most descendants of Walter Kaminski, who have shown a tendency to live for the moment and think with their peckers.

I have grown to believeA stone is a better pillow than many visions.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

We're adults. I might be a little more of an adult if you're counting years but I bet I have a lower IQ, so that puts us pretty much even.

It's usually the roughest waters that teach us the most.